A good argument to dump this off-shoring of our production capacity. When China is making our ordinance, one has to wonder if it really makes us secure.
Great, I was hoping to get his take on macro-evolution because I wanted to take care of his misconception of that subject.
Usually it is "one species evolving into another completely different one, like a dog evolving into a cat".
Then I would tell him that macro-evolution does not work like that. Rather than a species evolving to become a member of an existing order (dog to cat), macro-evolution is about the creation of new Genus and orders, and phylums, and classes, etc. where they did not previously exist.
I don't think it is as bad as ME, it just wasn't that much better than XP.
I have decided to wait to spend 300 bucks on Windows 7 Ultimate (what ever gets me all the features I want)rather than spend it on Windows Vista.
I have played with the pirates for a while, but I think it is time to settle down for my old age. Turning 30 next year I think made me think of being responsable and stuff.:-) [joking about old age ancient ones]
if you did a complete survey of people in the area, then great... but you are quoting figures that require someone to know the survey exists and decides they want to take it. It is not statistically meaningful.
I am not talking about numbers, I am talking about the ability to make it available. There are not long runs out to one person in teh middle of no where. There is a high ROI on investing in services in urban and suburban areas because the length of cable run to number of available customers is very high.
And thus.... I will mention this again................... AVERAGE SPEED IS MEANINGLESS. The providers are not making things like FIOS available to a wide enough audience and a reasonable enough price.
you still gave a meaningless statistic in your "new and improved" comparison.
You also ignore the fact that size does not matter in this case since almost the entire population live in urban and suburban conditions. When you focus on those conditions, you see that our population density where most people in the country live is high enough that we should be at a much higher Broadband adoption rate than we are.
frankly, if you are properly estimating your price based on SE metrics, then you should be able to provide them with what they consider a fixed cost but which is a reasonable estimate of your hours and materials for the current scope. If you then add in a clause that provides for charging more if the client changes the project scope on you, then you provide a deterrence for the client.
It is more mature, but C# fixes a lot of what is wrong in Java (lack of automatic boxing of primitive types anyone!).
To compare them, they are both completely adequate for the same problem domain. Also consider that Java 2 was a reboot of Java so you kind of have to go off of that as your starting point, with that taken into consideration, you really only have a few more years of maturity for Java.
C/C++, C#, Objective-C, Java, Python, Perl, [insert language of choice]
All can be used to do Linux development.
KDE, stick to C++ and Python.
Gnome, stick to C and C# and Python.
GNUStep, stick to Objective-C
Java and Perl and any other language you choose can be used as well, but the desktop environment support for them is little to non-existent, depending on the language.
oh, and I guess I should point this out since you don't seem to be clear on ig you get it or not...
You must use the computer with him
don't try and boob-tube him at the computer... the computer is much more interactive and thus requires parental support for playing on sites like NickJr.com or Noggin.com.
I bought this playskool device for my son. It is a keyboard overlay and software. It has 3 stages. Smash on the keyboard stage (makes noises and animations appear on screen.)
perform simple requests stage (Push the RED button type of stuff)
alphabet stage
He loved it, but then my older son stepped on the keyboard overlay.
My 2 year old is all about playing with the PC too. Screw a netbook or a laptop of any kind. My 2 year old has ripped the keys off my laptop 3 times.
Get him a nice inexpensive desktop.It is more durable and then he can work on his hand-eye coordination with the mouse. My son had taken it upon himself to play with my Office desktop and has become quite proficient with moving the mouse to where he wants and clicking.
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A good argument to dump this off-shoring of our production capacity. When China is making our ordinance, one has to wonder if it really makes us secure.
1984 was a novel about run away corporatism.
Maybe I will just look at the last 30 years of reversing FDR era regulations and programs and use that as my decision making tool.
Great, I was hoping to get his take on macro-evolution because I wanted to take care of his misconception of that subject.
Usually it is "one species evolving into another completely different one, like a dog evolving into a cat".
Then I would tell him that macro-evolution does not work like that. Rather than a species evolving to become a member of an existing order (dog to cat), macro-evolution is about the creation of new Genus and orders, and phylums, and classes, etc. where they did not previously exist.
define "macro-evolution" please.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/
There... go, read, watch, learn, enlighten yourself.
Who said show stopper? It is just proper design IMHO.
how is that flamebait? because I swore?
who the fuck thought they would be dropping Regex in any way shape or form?
I already use Linux and have used it since 97.
I don't think it is as bad as ME, it just wasn't that much better than XP.
I have decided to wait to spend 300 bucks on Windows 7 Ultimate (what ever gets me all the features I want)rather than spend it on Windows Vista.
I have played with the pirates for a while, but I think it is time to settle down for my old age. Turning 30 next year I think made me think of being responsable and stuff. :-) [joking about old age ancient ones]
if you did a complete survey of people in the area, then great... but you are quoting figures that require someone to know the survey exists and decides they want to take it. It is not statistically meaningful.
I am not talking about numbers, I am talking about the ability to make it available. There are not long runs out to one person in teh middle of no where. There is a high ROI on investing in services in urban and suburban areas because the length of cable run to number of available customers is very high.
And thus.... I will mention this again................... AVERAGE SPEED IS MEANINGLESS. The providers are not making things like FIOS available to a wide enough audience and a reasonable enough price.
The same economic theory that gives us the economic success of the interstate system?
you still are fucking comparing a meaningless metric! The metric we are looking at is ADOPTION and AVAILABILITY.
you still gave a meaningless statistic in your "new and improved" comparison.
You also ignore the fact that size does not matter in this case since almost the entire population live in urban and suburban conditions. When you focus on those conditions, you see that our population density where most people in the country live is high enough that we should be at a much higher Broadband adoption rate than we are.
frankly, if you are properly estimating your price based on SE metrics, then you should be able to provide them with what they consider a fixed cost but which is a reasonable estimate of your hours and materials for the current scope. If you then add in a clause that provides for charging more if the client changes the project scope on you, then you provide a deterrence for the client.
It is more mature, but C# fixes a lot of what is wrong in Java (lack of automatic boxing of primitive types anyone!).
To compare them, they are both completely adequate for the same problem domain. Also consider that Java 2 was a reboot of Java so you kind of have to go off of that as your starting point, with that taken into consideration, you really only have a few more years of maturity for Java.
C/C++, C#, Objective-C, Java, Python, Perl, [insert language of choice]
All can be used to do Linux development.
KDE, stick to C++ and Python.
Gnome, stick to C and C# and Python.
GNUStep, stick to Objective-C
Java and Perl and any other language you choose can be used as well, but the desktop environment support for them is little to non-existent, depending on the language.
Perhaps if you would try some cognition before you type, this is more about running the interface graphics than it is about gaming graphics.
He should use Citizendium then.
oh, and I guess I should point this out since you don't seem to be clear on ig you get it or not...
You must use the computer with him
don't try and boob-tube him at the computer... the computer is much more interactive and thus requires parental support for playing on sites like NickJr.com or Noggin.com.
I bought this playskool device for my son. It is a keyboard overlay and software. It has 3 stages. Smash on the keyboard stage (makes noises and animations appear on screen.)
perform simple requests stage (Push the RED button type of stuff)
alphabet stage
He loved it, but then my older son stepped on the keyboard overlay.
My 2 year old is all about playing with the PC too. Screw a netbook or a laptop of any kind. My 2 year old has ripped the keys off my laptop 3 times.
Get him a nice inexpensive desktop.It is more durable and then he can work on his hand-eye coordination with the mouse. My son had taken it upon himself to play with my Office desktop and has become quite proficient with moving the mouse to where he wants and clicking.
Well... this isn't just GPS. Proper data encryption will allow the planes to fly with the same level of security they had with Radar tech.
uhh... no, but thanks for playing.